News and Updates

I see that the government of Georgia is organizing an inter-governmental conference on Environmental Education for Sustainable Development.  This is scheduled for 6 – 7 September 2012 in, where else, Tbilisi, and will commemorate the 35th anniversary of the eponymous...

Defra is reviewing the UK's sustainable development indicator set, and is seeking views on its proposals.  It says this ... The Government has committed to measure and report our progress through a new set of sustainable development indicators.  The intention...

I have been following the Olympics rather more than I thought I should – mostly mediated by the BBC, but including a trip to see volleyball for real (accompanying rather bemused grandchildren).  I've been enjoying the drama without getting too...

This is part of a message sent by UCU about the publication of the 2012 Green League Table ... "We are particularly concerned about the slow pace of change on education for sustainable development.  Only a third of institutions have...

In a press release dated 30th July 2012, the Office for Strictures and Control on Food and Fodder ( Ofscoff ) [1] ordered the confiscation of strawberry jam recently and illicitly produced by unqualified persons at an unregistered site somewhere...

I confess that I struggle with issues around economic growth, in particular wondering how more people can enjoy a decent life – Sen's idea(l) of living a life one has reason to value – without it.  I subscribe to the...

A long special report in last week's Economist on natural gas and its rapidly increasing availability.  Looks like peak gas has been put off for a while yet, and, given that natural gas is increasingly substituting for oil across its...

In his latest blog posting, Arjen Wals shares some of his recent experiences at the hands of UNECO editors, and looks back both at Rio+20, and Rio -20 in Stockholm.  He notes ... I was invited to Rio to present...

EAUC has submitted a well-argued response to the QAA about its marginalisation of sustainability in the new UK quality code.  See this post for a comment on the very poor fist QAA made of all this. EAUC begins ... In...

I once got into trouble during a talk at a school by suggesting that they should try to reduce the amount of stuff they recycled, and that cutting waste in the first place was a better project.  It fell on...